amap

Yeah.

They've partnered with AMAP, which is also known as Gaode, to digitally map the first one thousand shopping malls, restaurants, and hotels.

Wow, a thousand already.

Yeah.

Meanwhile, on the frontier of artificial intelligence, new patterns are emerging, showing that AI agents are becoming a persistent presence online.

Recent research has focused on AI agents pinging services like Alibaba's AMAP, often attempting to find directions to various public locations.

These queries don't just raise eyebrows.

They prompt deeper scrutiny, particularly after the widely publicized Hugging Face incident.

Next up, a group of self-styled agent swarm chasers, which reminds me of course of the '90s classic Twister, have detected a group of agents using Tencent's AI infrastructure.

In a preliminary report published on Sunday, the group said that they detected several thousand agents that seemed to be sending bulk requests to Alibaba's map service, AMAP.

The researchers went out of their way to avoid using the term agent swarm.

They found no evidence that the agents were coordinating with each other, as we saw happening with OpenAI's agents during the Hugging Face incident.

However, at this point, we are also very open.

For example, we partner with AMAP in Chinese called Gaode.

So in many cities, you open up Gaode, you call for a ride.

Actually, we are one of the choice.

We are also partnered with other ride-hailing app platforms.